All that remained of it was the habitual offering of the food to the dead, a custom which still lingers among the fellahin of Egypt, both Moslem and Copt.
But the Agathodaemon or serpent guardian of the house not only still survives among the fellahin of Egypt, serpent worship still holds undiminished sway in the valley of the Nile.
A considerable portion of the fellahin were descended from the earlier neolithic population of Egypt, whom the Pharaonic Egyptians found already settled in the country.
Their hybridism is well shown by their great divergence of colour, fellahin in the Delta being sometimes lighter than Arabs, while in Upper Egypt the prevailing complexion is dark brown.
Up to the end of 1883 the infantry still consisted of eight fellahin battalions.
The army improved in efficiency, and the constant warfare began to produce, even among the fellahin infantry, experienced soldiers.
The firstfellahin villages seen on the right and left of the road impress one curiously.
It is usually women of importance who indulge in this luxury, for the poorfellahin women have no other means of locomotion than their little feet.
Elsewhere I caught sight of fellahin huts surmounted by whitewashed dovecotes, placed side by side like beehives or the minarets of a mosque.
It is crossed by the railway, and on the other side lie the ruins of ancient Athrebys, over which has been built a fellahin village.
Life, Habits, and Customs of the Fellahin of Palestine,' by the Rev.
The measure by which the Fellahindivide their land is the feddân.
The fellahin herdsmen of the time seem to have clubbed together into gangs, each of which was represented by a ganger, and the whole body by a superintendent of the gangs.
Such songs are very common among the fellahin of the present day, who thus mark time for their work in the fields or on the river.
The regeneration of the fellahin army dates from that epidemic.
The education of Egyptians in continental cities had not produced the class of leaders who led the fellahin to victory at Konia.
The bulk of the fellahin enjoyed a material prosperity to which they had been strangers for centuries.
The fellahin or peasantry and the native townsmen.
Four of the fellahinbattalions were officered by Orientals; in the other five, British officers commanded.
There the Fellahin found me, lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from a wound on the breast, and in an advanced stage of malarious fever.
At any rate, there they all were, ranged around the walls undisturbed, the moment the Fellahin entered.
Some small fellahinboys have the hair growing quite long over the back of the neck, while the whole crown is well shaved.
The fellahin form the bulk of the population--mostly of the poorer classes.
The chief imports from Great Britain are unbleached calicos, which are used by the fellahin for clothing.
It may be remarked, en passant, that the fellahin are the farmers of Egypt.
The fellahin scratch the rich alluvial soil with the same kind of clumsy wooden plough that was used when Marc Antony came down from Rome on a business trip and got all snarled up with Cleopatra.
His great prestige with the country sheykhs and the fellahin of the Delta made it easy for him to inspire these with enthusiasm for the war, and at his pleading supplies flowed in gratuitously from all sides, and also volunteers for the army.
He was an extreme representative of the class which for centuries had looked upon Egypt as their property and the fellahin as their slaves and servants.
He thinks the difficulty in Ireland got up by agitators; that the Irish fellahin are not really with the National Party, and that armed intervention would set things right.
Sherif was a Europeanized Turk of good breeding and excellent manners, but with all that arrogant contempt of the fellahin which distinguished his class in Egypt.
Certainly there never had been an age in Egypt when the mass of the native inhabitants had been so materially prosperous; and to the fellahin especially it had come to be spoken of as, for them, the "age of gold.
The Copt and Arab element of the fellahin unanimously supports him.
From immemorial time, the fellahin have used it for the construction of their houses.
Some weeks ago Jeanne Imer and I were being carefully escorted through a Fellahin village by one of the students.
A Fellahin village itself looks like a dusty unfinished basket turned upside down.
Think of a griddle-cake nine inches in diameter, or something even thinner than a griddle-cake, and you have the Fellahin bread.
Next I sent the bathtub to the Fellahin with orders to make a basket covering for it, the same shape as the "tin dish" to protect it during a long journey we expected soon to take.
Some weeks ago I had the school steward (name, when spoken, sounds like Asturah) go to a Fellahin village near Tarsus and have a basket made for me.
A few yards outside the gate, we are in a Fellahin village.
The Fellahin speak a form of Arabic, but are too ignorant to care whether they make themselves understood or not.
Cotton went up in price until even the conservative fellahin of Egypt saw the desirability of growing that strange new shrub--the first instance on record of a change in their tillage that came about without compulsion.
Having grasped the reins of government, the fellahin colonels proceeded to relegate their Turkish and Circassian rivals to service at Khartum--an ingenious form of banishment.
This aroused bitter resentment in the dominant Turkish caste, which looked on the fellahin as born to pay taxes and bear burdens.
So great were the profits reaped by intelligent growers that many fellahin bought Circassian and Abyssinian wives, and established harems in which jewels, perfumes, silks, and mirrors were to be found.
At last a final rupture was arrived at, and the fellahin left us, quivering with indignation at the terms proposed by the new-comers.
I am bound to say that I did not discover any aversion on the part of the Moslem fellahin to the proprietorship by Israelites of their land, on religious grounds.
It would be difficult to conceive a greater contrast than is presented by these wretched fellahin and their burrowing habitations with the splendour of the edifices and the opulence which must have characterized the former inhabitants.
Old men and maidens, young men and married women and children, I saw them all, nor, so far as dress and facial type were concerned, was it possible to distinguish them from the fellahin of the country generally.
In strange contrast with these Roumanian Jews was the Arab Jew who acted as interpreter—a stout, handsome man, in Oriental garb, as unlike his European coreligionists as the fellahin themselves.
One of the fellahin now told us of a marvel in the neighbourhood.
There is no fact at first more puzzling to the traveller in Palestine than the contrast between the misery and poverty of the fellahin and the extent and fertility of land owned by each village.
The fellahin say that many of these “dolls,” as they call them, used to be picked up, and were given to the children as playthings.
There is nothing more simple than farming in co-operation with the fellahin of Palestine if you go the right way to work about it, and nothing more hopeless if attempted upon a system to which they are unaccustomed.
The experiment of associating Jews and Moslem fellahin in field labor will be an interesting one to watch, and the preliminary discussions on the subject were more picturesque than satisfactory.
If any distinction is to be drawn between them, it is that the term Perizzite was specially applied to the fellahin of southern Canaan, while the term Hivite was restricted to the inhabitants of the north.
The peasantry or fellahin are the Perizzites of the Hebrew Scriptures.
We found a great contrast between the Arabs and the Fellahin in the matter of folk-lore.
The Asiatic loin-cloth differs from the Egyptian in having pendent cords; the Syrian fellahin still wear it when at work.
He possesses also that uncertainty of conduct that is the privilege of a royal mind; fellahin and Arabs pretend they are his masters, and lead him about with a rope, but that never disturbs him nor breaks his spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fellahin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
